Network characteristics and driving factors of leaf trait networks along a gradient of rocky desertification. [PDF]
Plant DiversDeng H +4 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
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Desertification Drives Functional Reassembly of Rhizosphere Fungal Communities from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Dark Septate Endophytes in Temperate Grassland. [PDF]
J Fungi (Basel)Wang X, Liu R, Li H, Yao Q.
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A framework for integrating resilience indicators into risk assessments
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Globally, ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change and human pressures, yet ecosystem risk assessments predominantly emphasize exposure to stressors while overlooking intrinsic ecosystem resilience—the capacity to absorb and recover from disturbances.
Benoît Pichon +4 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how pre‐service teachers (PSTs) in Hong Kong developed beliefs about translanguaging and how they enacted and negotiated these beliefs during teaching practicums in English‐as‐a‐second‐language (ESL) classrooms. Drawing on reflective diaries and follow‐up interviews with nine PSTs, the study found that PSTs’ beliefs were ...
Hanyun (Icey) Wu
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Early physiological response of Pinus yunnanensis Franch. seedlings to simulated karst rocky desertification stress. [PDF]
BMC Plant BiolLu Z +7 more
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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Stabilized sand seas facing climate threats need health baselines now. [PDF]
Eco Environ HealthRakkasagi S, Nitzan D, Maman S.
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Effects of Continuous Electric/Magnetic Field Treatment on Nutrient, Enzyme Activity, and Bacterial Community Structure in Rocky Desertification Soils. [PDF]
MicroorganismsHu J +8 more
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